Sick & disabled people to be subjected to same harm as Universal Credit claimants from April
The Department for Work and Pensions is to run trials on a new “integrated” assessment service, putting sick and disabled benefit claimants under the same conditions as Universal Credit claimants.
What a disaster for people with long-term illnesses and disabilities.
Universal Credit is known to be harmful to its claimants. The five-week wait before anything is paid puts most people into debt and forces them to take out advance loans, meaning that the amount they receive – when they do get it – is much less than their government-assessed need, and continues to be so for many months.
This creates serious mental and emotional stress and otherwise fit and healthy UC claimants have done horrifying damage to their own health as a result.
People with illnesses and disabilities are already suffering damage to their own health. The current system already piles mental and emotional stress on them –
Only yesterday I wrote about “brown envelope anxiety”, that pushes sick and disabled people (especially) to avoid opening communications from the government, in the expectation that the message inside will inflict harm upon them.
– and putting them under Universal Credit conditions can only make matters worse.
I notice that the new trial is set to start in April, when the effects of Covid-19 are expected to be dying down.
Is it the Tory aim to immediately replace one fatal attack on sickness and disability with another?
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ESA assessments were already the same as UC assessments. I don’t think the problem is anything to do with ESA and PIP becoming like UC, it’s that a single bad assessment coukd lose you both ESA and PIP (or UC and PIP) at the same time, leaving you with nothing.
Your experience seems markedly different to that of Mrs Mike (and myself). Were you in a trial area for the new system?
Far far too many do not believe that a government can and will crop their useless eaters butwake up please they doing it under your noses just listen to the old lady history repeating itself.
https://youtu.be/Ww800PzlJ6Y